@Javier Roman I experienced the same issue on my second install. I had enabled the quick boot option in BIOS and that is what I blamed for the issue, as for me it happened when the installer tried rebooting. So I went into to BIOS to disable quick boot and noticed that anything inBIOS i had changed had gone back to the default. So I re-flashed the BIOS and everything went fine.

@Jonathan Greig Are you using the custom BIOS or the one that shipped? I am asking because on the custom BIOS download page the installation media that is mentioned is Snow Leopard, so I think you should have no problems.

Guys, will the retail disk for snow leopard work fine? After several calls to A***e, it is practically impossible to obtain the mountain lion without already owning a mac. I just ordered an unopened snow leopard disk from some random guy on ebay.

Has anyone had any issues with a reinstall? mine fails saying mac os x installer couldnt load and to try reinstalling. i figured it had something to do with nvram. cleared the cmos but still no luck. any help is appreciated

I'm currently running HD4000. I tried my Radeon HD 6870 and it worked great with the BIOS set up like fadeawayleft mentioned. The Init Display First does not have to be set to IGPU unless you still plan on using HD4000 along with your graphics card.

Has anyone overseas who didn't use FedEx/DHL **actually** got a shipping notification yet?

I know they are a small company and plenty of unanticipated problems came up with "other vendors" but they've had boards for more than a month now.

I'm also worried by the website listing 162 boards in stock now for general customers (compared with @Randall's report of 254 on 18 July). While one might hope that Kickstarter backers are the source of this depletion, I have doubts given the website never showed enough stock to fulfil this company's first and most loyal customers. Even in the 'best' case scenario of this figure representing backers, 92 boards have been shipped in 30 days (3.06 daily). At this rate 509 boards would take from 18 July until January 1st 2014 to complete.

I really, really want to see this ship but am increasingly worried that I'll never see it. Perhaps as a matter of confidence restoration they could outline how many they've shipped, where each outstanding backer sits in the queue, and a realistic expectation as to how many they anticipate shipping this week.

While I've been a lot more patient than other commentators and genuinely don't care if I have to wait a little longer, the repetitive promise breaking and completely ignoring emails is getting to me. I've also well-and-truly passed my bank's timeframe for a credit card chargebacks (which I wouldn't want to do anyway as I want the board and don't want to take Quo's time away from serving other backer orders).

@ Alex - correct, there is no printed manual in the box, it is on the CD. As for Thunderbolt, I am using one port for my display and the other for a Drobo Mini Thunderbolt storage device. Both work fine, but hot swap is not supported. Also, I can't get into the BIOS at boot using my TB port - I have to plug into HDMI. Not sure if it is my display causing this. I do plan on getting a new Apple TB display when (I'm sure) it comes out with the Mac Pro.

My board FINALLY came today! I had 2 bags of 2 Sata cables in my box (4 total)... I'll have to check out the board tonight or tomorrow to see if everything is in working order as the box looked like it had been soccer kicked a few times by USPS.
The "initial" shipping I got was just to verify that I wanted X shipping method. I just chose regular USPS and they sent it via 2 day express a week after I replied to the shipping message.
The box had the board, backplate for I/O, 4 sata cables, SLI bracket, and Driver CD. You have the option of waiting until the WiFi/BT add-on board is done to have all shipped at the same time for no added cost, or have your motherboard sent ahead of the add-on board and pay half of the price to ship it later.

Received an email which is confusing because it claims my board is coming, but I have two shipping options - so which is it - sent, or not sent and I have to reply to ask it to be sent?

Also what's now *actually* in the box? Wifi is obviously delayed (and I'll have to pay to get it?). I'm told I can buy SATA III cables (but board is already either on it's way, or not) so I take they aren't included.

@Kang: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7049/intel-thunderbolt-2-everything-you-need-to-knowAs you know, this board uses Ivy Bridge processors and has Cactus Ridge Thunderbolt controllers. Redwood Ridge Thunderbolt controllers are to be in the new boards using Haswell processors. It's akin to asking if you can update a PCI slot to PCI Express.
Also, barely any Macs have Haswell. I think just the Macbook Airs so far. So, this board is not all that behind Macs.

Do anybody notice that gigabyte has announced new Z87-Deluxe/Quad seires motherboard?It has 2 thunderbolt 2.0 ports which can operate at 20Gb/s.Is it possible enable thunderbolt 2.0 for projectQ?plus still waiting for my board.....

@ Jonathan Greig There is a manual on the driver disc that came with your motherboard. I don't know if it will be any help in regards to overclocking though. I looked over it but don't remember what all was discussed in it. I don't plan on overclocking myself, although I do have the 3770K installed. I would be hesitant to try it without a working hardware monitor application.

@hubgodsfan sounds good it works with the retail app store copy. I plan on setting up win/linux first on separate drives and then doing the osx install on another drive.

I was joking when I mentioned in the unboxing video that he went straight for the instructions. There isn't even a motherboard manual with the darn thing that would explain codes, etc.... Suggestions anyone? Every mobo is different and I'm never OC'd a gigabyte mobo before. Is there anything special that needs to be known to recover from a bad OC? Is there a manual online that I'm missing?

Did the reinstall, no problems there. Followed the instructions in the readme.txt file and audio is working perfectly. This is awesome. I am very excited to not need any other applications such as Multibeast to get this machine going. Just a few simple terminal commands with the correct files in the correct locations and BAM!

I tried applying the audio patch from the legacy files after having already "fixed" the audio with multi beast. It didn't work. I actually lost audio, which really isn't a surprise. That's why I cloned before I made my attempt. I am going to completely reinstall and use the legacy patch because I want as "vanilla" an install as possible. Also, using Multibeast doesn't give us HDMI audio and mDP audio, this legacy patch should.

I was not aware of these legacy files. I'm sure that is the best way to get audio going, although not the easiest. It does contain a handy readme.txt file that clearly explains how to go about installing it though. Seems pretty straight forward.

@ileopod where/how did you discover these legacy files? It would have been nice to have someone point us to them before now. Perhaps someone and we overlooked them?

@jt no audio is normal for your install as the ALC892 Audio Codec is not supported by Apple. I suggest reading through this thread for more info: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285920-new-os-x-compatible-motherboard-quo/ . The unofficial BIOS cannot be shipped on the board or officially supported by QUO for legal reasons. We do not want them to do that, because if they did, Apple would surely sue, then we would all be out of luck when QUO went under. The audio is a simple fix. Download Multibeast from here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/downloads.php… , you will have to create an account first. Then run the program, select the drivers/audio/realtek/ALC892 only. Don't select anything else. Install it. Then open Disk Utility. Repair permissions on your startup volume. Reboot. It will all be working.

Using a vanilla install of OSX 10.8.4, I managed to get my computer working with my GTX 670 vidcard utilizing Foggy's link for an updated version of the unofficial and unsupported H3A BIOS.

The only problem now is that there isn't audio output through any of the ports. No sound! I'm starting to believe that the real reason that the shipping of the MB's has been delayed is because the official BIOS for this board simply isn't ready for primetime.

I hope my MB before 1500 comments :-) I am ready for a long wait... I am one of the last backers, so... A lot experience for me with the other backers and maybe the official quo forum before my board arrived :-)

@ John T Bolds: Crickets here. I'm thinking we might receive a query e-mail next month, then another month or so for complete systems delivery. But it's just a wild guess based on information provided to date. At least you can take comfort that you and 36 others share this status, myself included.